"The Nightingale" [Attenhofer]

"The Nightingale" [Attenhofer]

First line of lyrics: The sunrise wakes the lark to sing

Attenhofer; music

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1898, 1901 [publication] [copyright]

Scott, Foresman and Company; New York, Boston, Chicago: Silver, Burdett and Company

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: keyboard

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United States

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Bird Raptures"

Tempo markings: "Andantino, dolce"

Notes: This song is one of two settings of poems by Christina Rossetti found in Eleanor Smith's Modern Music Series, third volume "A Second Book in Vocal Music" (1901), with C. E. Richard Mueller, and categorized in a section called "Songs of Nature." The following statement is found prominently on the title page of the book: "Wherein the study of musical structure is pursued through the consideration of complete melodic forms and practice based on exercises related to them."

Format 1: musical score

2 pages

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Smith, Eleanor. A Second Book of Vocal Music, The Modern Music Series, Silver, Burdett and Company, 1901, p. 80-81. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006577591. Accessed 29 Jun 2021.

Record: CRM-birdraptures-attenhofer

File(s): CRM-birdraptures-attenhofer.pdf

"Copyright, 1898, 1898 | By Scott, Foresman & Company. | Copyright, 1901, | By Silver, Burdett & Company."

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